Originally Posted by
ERD50
Then I don't think you have been reading these threads. What's hard to understand? I just want my dinner. I don't want to be concerned about who gets paid what - that's between management and the employee.
-ERD50
If you just want your dinner, then it's your choice to just have your dinner and not be concerned with tipping. YOUR CHOICE! Why be overly sensitive and make a big deal out of it?
If you don't like tipping, please don't. That's the way our free market system works. Tipping, or fretting over tipping, sends a signal to the service sellers that they have a system that works (for them) and encourages them to continue. If you want to discourage tipping and have competition based on just the menu prices alone, don't tip.
All this wailing and gnashing of teeth over tipping is another example of how Americans don't like to follow their own beloved free market system and are the cause of many of its failures to allocate resources and dictate business practices in accordance with demand. They don't like the tipping system yet follow it like lemmings when doing so is very, very optional.
I tend to NOT vote for things I don't like.